International Partnerships for Social Value Creation: New Insights from Multinational Enterprises

Call for Papers

International Partnerships for Social Value Creation: New Insights from Multinational Enterprises

Journal: Multinational Business Review
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 March 2027
Submission Opens: 01 March 2027

Multinational Business Review invites submissions for its Special Issue on International Partnerships for Social Value Creation: New Insights from Multinational Enterprises.

About the Special Issue

This Special Issue seeks to advance understanding of how multinational enterprises (MNEs) use international partnerships to create social value and address complex societal challenges.

The issue focuses particularly on multi-stakeholder and cross-border partnerships and examines how institutional environments, partnership structures, organizational capabilities, social purpose, and governance mechanisms influence social value creation.

Researchers are encouraged to provide new theoretical and empirical perspectives on how MNEs collaborate with international partners and stakeholders to address societal problems while balancing economic and social objectives. Multidisciplinary and methodologically rigorous research is particularly encouraged.

Topics of Interest

Submissions may include, but are not limited to:

• International partnerships for addressing poverty, food insecurity, public health, and other societal challenges

• MNE partnerships and value creation for stakeholders and communities

• Market and non-market partnerships for social value creation

• Equity and non-equity alliances and international joint ventures

• Dynamic capabilities for social value creation

• Cross-border partnership challenges and alliance management

• Social purpose in multinational enterprises

• Social value creation across global value chains

• Institutional frictions in international partnerships

• Home and host market institutions and their influence on partnerships

• Multi-partner and cross-border social alliances

• Platform firms, digital ecosystems, and social value creation

• Governance structures and decision-making in international partnerships

• Trade-offs between economic and social value creation

Preferred Article Types

The Special Issue welcomes:

• Empirical Research

• Theoretical Research

• Multidisciplinary Studies

• Studies advancing or challenging existing theories

• Methodologically rigorous research

Submission Information

• Submission Opens: 01 March 2027

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 March 2027

• Submissions must be made through ScholarOne Manuscripts.

• Authors must follow the journal's official author guidelines.

• Authors should select the appropriate Special Issue during the submission process.

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.

Guest Editors

• Huda Khan

• Zaheer Khan

• Hemant Merchant

• Saqib Shamim

• Muhammad Saad Baloch

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